Italy’s Data Protection Authority has ordered Facebook to turn over all the data it has on a user, along with data from a fake page that a troll set up in his name and used to extort him.
In addition, the company’s been ordered to hand over details of how the personal data was used, including who it was sent to or who might have obtained knowledge about it.
According to
official documents, the user in question had accepted a friend request from an unspecified party.
When the man – kept anonymous in the documents – resisted that party’s extortion attempt, the troll swiped his personal information and photo and set up a phony account in his name.
Then, he or she used the fake account to send pictures and video montages to the man’s contacts. The images were meant to smear his reputation by implicating him in sexual activity, including with a minor.
